![]() ![]() Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird likely models Dill's characterization after Capote.Īs a lonely child, Capote taught himself to read and write before he entered his first year of school. In Monroeville, Capote was a neighbor and friend of Harper Lee, who would also go on to become an acclaimed author and a lifelong friend of Capote's. "Her face is remarkable – not unlike Lincoln's, craggy like that, and tinted by sun and wind", is how Capote described Sook in "A Christmas Memory" (1956). He formed a fast bond with his mother's distant relative, Nanny Rumbley Faulk, whom Truman called "Sook". His parents divorced when he was four, and he was sent to Monroeville, Alabama, where, for the following four to five years, he was raised by his mother's relatives. Capote spent four years writing the book, aided by his lifelong friend Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).īorn in New Orleans, Louisiana, Capote was the son of 19-year-old Lillie Mae Faulk (1905–1954) and salesman Archulus Persons (1897–1981). Capote earned the most fame with In Cold Blood, a journalistic work about the murder of a Kansas farm family in their home. The critical success of "Miriam" (1945) attracted the attention of Random House publisher Bennett Cerf and resulted in a contract to write the novel Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He began his professional career writing short stories. He had discovered his calling as a writer by age 8, and he honed his writing ability throughout his childhood. ![]() His works have been adapted into more than 20 films and television dramas.Ĭapote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple migrations. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966), which he labeled a "nonfiction novel". Truman Garcia Capote ( / k ə ˈ p oʊ t i/ born Truman Streckfus Persons, Septem– August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.
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